There’s no tactful way to say this: I’ve never watched a ski film from start to finish. I prefer to spend winter on a snowboard, and so I prefer to spend the aching weeks between first snow and opening day catching up on snowboard videos.

It’s not like I’m totally in the dark. I’ve seen snippets of plenty ski-only ski films — Warren Miller is a different breed — and I enjoy them well enough. They just don’t do it for me, kind of how powder skiing on two sticks just doesn’t compare to powder slashing on one. Trust me, skiers. It’s as fun as it looks.

That said, don’t let my preferences turn you away from this roundup of 2016-17’s new ski films. I got just about all of the big hitters in there, plus the latest free offering from Videograss, the production house behind the neon night riding in “Afterglow.” This is the season of statement movies, from climate change to ski-industry greed, and skiers are doing it better than just about anyone.

Nutshell: Level 1 meets up with a massive group of globetrotting pros for backcountry, urban and park riding, from India and Japan to Alaska and Washington, D.C.

Breakdown: In the follow-up to 2015’s “Small World,” Denver’s Level 1 and director Josh Berman put out yet another stunning collection of ski footage from just about every freestyle and big-mountain name in the book. The 53-minute film visits a whopping nine locations, including oddities like Washington, D.C. for a concrete-heavy urban segment and Gulmarg, India for a taste of backcountry in the heart of Asia.

Keep your eyes open for Dillon local Ethan Swadburg, a Team Hawks freeski alum and winner of the 2016 Aspen Snowmass Freeskiing Open. He also won Level 1’s latest “Superunknown” competition, and with good reason: he slays the backcountry booters with pleasure in “Pleasure.”

Watch it: Available on iTunes ($12.99 buy), Vimeo SD ($12.99 buy) and Vimeo 4K ($19.99), or on a two-disc DVD ($27.95) online through the Level 1 website at http://www.leve1productions.com.

Nutshell: The man himself gets behind and in front of the camera for the 67th film documenting all the weird, wild stuff people do on snow.

Breakdown: When’s the last time Warren Miller got in front of the camera in a film bearing his name? I had no idea, but I can’t remember seeing him recently. After a quick round of Internet research I learned it’s been 12 years, and that’s why this one is so special. The 92-year-old legend gives a lively interview in “Here, There and Everywhere,” the 67th film from his production company, and it comes close to outshining everything else. That’s saying a lot for a full-length film with fat biking, backcountry snowmobiling, dog-sledding and hill-climb racing, plus the mandatory skiing and pond-skimming.

“For the first time in a dozen years, we are thrilled to return to the screen with the support and inclusion of the patriarch of winter stoke, Warren Miller,” managing director Andy Hawk said in a release. “This year’s project has been an incredibly rewarding opportunity for the athletes, film crew and staff who were able to work directly with him again.”

Nutshell: Sweetgrass sets aside the neon lights for a sobering eco-documentary about the contested Jumbo Glacier Resort in British Columbia.

Breakdown: In “Jumbo Wild,” the guys behind “Valhalla,” the philosophical snow film with the naked skiing segment, and “Afterglow,” the one with all the trippy backcountry night skiing, get serious for a short film about Jumbo Glacier Resort. It’s the ski industry paradox in a nutshell: Is year-round skiing on a glacier with the longest continuous drop in North America — 5,627 vertical feet, plus 13,900 acres of accessible terrain — worth building a brand-new resort, chairlifts and parking lots smack in the middle of protected land? The question brings to mind the wilderness debates in the U.S., only in the heart of B.C.

Sweetgrass definitely has an angle, but in 7:49 the producers and director build a convincing case. They also decided to give it away for free (with a little help from sponsors Patagonia), so the angle never stinks of hypocrisy. They truly believe in the cause.

Nutshell: One of the oldest filmmakers in the business keeps it going strong with a film that’s half ski movie, half climate-change documentary.

Breakdown: After 22 years, Matchstick Productions of Crested Butte is making its voice heard in the climate change debate. It’s not the first time winter filmmakers have commented on global warming — Warren Miller partnered with the The Climate Reality Project in 2012 — but few films have toed the line between ski porn and statement like “Ruin and Rose.” It pairs backcountry footage from snowy locales like Switzerland, France, Alaska and B.C. with the apocalyptic images from Africa’s Skeleton Coast in Nimibia. The message hits home better than in Kevin Costner’s “Waterworld.”